So when did YOU started to appreciate retro?You know... we've all been there. We all once only cared about the latest, most shilled AAA modern games and felt repulsed by games that felt "aged" at one point in our lives. But there also came a time of enligthenment where, somehow, our brain did a "click" and we started appreciating old games again.It could be due to many factors...Maybe we got nostalgic and went back to our childhood games, realizing they weren't so bad and "aged" as we initially thought, and even realized how they are actually better than modern shit.Maybe we wanted to hop in the bandwagon of retro indie games and started appreciating the games that influenced thoseMaybe we got into reselling on ebay and eventually started playing these old games you were reselling and realized they are good.Whatever the case, when was the exact moment YOU changed?
Didn't stop playing them, didn't move on from them, never been nostalgic for them. Now fuck off.
never even stopped appreciating old games.and as an early pc haver, console games were just another set of games to play.even when i was almost exclusively playing modern games, i was always playing older games on the side.
>>12041226>>12041231Well, maybe you guys are the rule to the exception, or you are lying.Most people go through a sort of video game "hero's journey" where they thing anything that's not current gen is unappealing. But eventually go around and start appreciating them someday. The question is when was that moment for you.
>>12041236No they fucking don't you massive retard.
>>12041207I never really stopped. I bought new games, kept playing them over the years, and then one day noticed that they're on retro boards.
>>12041243They don't what? Why are you angry?Either they are the exception or they are lying.Most people do indeed go through that journey of being current-only to appreciating old stuff again. Of course, a lot of people never get past the current-only, "present is always better" mentality.
>>12041236Don't be hostile. Sentimental attachment is the most dominant force in retro gaming just like in toy collecting or any other hobby. The only people I can think of who fit what you describe are younger gamers who don't have a lot of modern choices while discovering the massive amounts of classic games.
>>12041251Not even close to true. Normal people will always be able to go back to the games they enjoyed as a kid. I think the only "old games" a person would be likely to resist trying are ones from before they were born. I have zero interest in atari games, for instance.
>>12041207I'm not a moron so I always appreciated "retro."
>>12041273>Sentimental attachment is the most dominant force in retro gamingincorrect.legendary games are the driving force in retro.
>>12041273Yes but before nostalgia eases people into actually appreciating older games, they are still in that "modern games good old games bad" mentality.One of my country's most famous retro e-celebs is a friend of mine and I clearly remember how he was a modern-only guy (around 6th and 7th gen), it wasn't until 8th gen rolled around that he started getting into retro
1. How old are you? Give an estimate if you don't want to give your actual age2. What was the first console you got that was new?3. When you got that console, did you keep playing older consoles at the same time?
>>12041280>>>12041273>nostalgia>eases people into actually appreciating older gamesnonsensical zoomwigger logic.
>>12041251>Of course, a lot of people never get past the current-only, "present is always better" mentality.The only people I ever ran into who are like that are millenials. New is always better. Old is always obsolete. Their heads are beyond thick with discussing it. They're the people that remakes and remasters are often made for because they'll chance upon an old game that they'd like to try, but they can't play it because it's old and eww and has poop on it.
>>12041285It's true though.It doesn't mean that people like old games because of nostalgia, it means that, thanks to nostalgia, people go back to old games, and realize they are still good to this day and not just "a product of its time", despite the efforts of some anti-retro/modern shilling media outlets.
>>12041290Not gonna get into generational war nonsense, I think people of all generations are like that.Not all people are nostalgic. A lot of Gen X's behavior is also about present always being better and fuck the past.
>>12041290Ah yes, millenials who actually grew up on retro games hate old stuff?Zoomie, shut the fuck up and go play fortnite.
>>12041283>at the same time?you don't have to play older games "at the same time" to maintain appreciation for them. >>12041290zoomers* actually believe that new = high quality and older = low quality.millennials recognize the classics and always have.>>12041292incorrect. people "go back" to games released previously because they're good. you're a retarded zoomwigger who thinks that technological progress necessarily equates to an increase in game value.I have had a blast playing Tecmo Bowl for my entire life because it's a great game. it's probably the best football game ever made. also, it was never "old" to me. I never took a "break" from appreciating it.
>>12041236You're the only being dishonest to yourself.
>>12041207When I was around 18 years old I almost completely lost interest in mainstream games, but when I was around 19 years old I rediscovered the 3DS, and I had a second youth with it around the time it was dying. I also started replaying nds games from my childhood and early teens and realized I didn't lost interest in smaller games or handheld ones. I was always interested in gaming history, though, and ofter, while I did not play old games or series, I always knew about them. Then, out of curiosity, I thought to check some classics I missed when they came out before my time. So, when I was around 21-22, a little earlier than COVID, I tried Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, SotN, Xenogears, Vagrant Story, Donkey Kong Country, Mana games. I also came back to play modern games, but not AAA for which I still didn't care. But the more I played modern and retro games alongside eachother, the more I realized retros were actually better: better pacing, simplier and funnier gameplay, better music, and ofter even better atmosphere and graphics as oxymoronic as it may sound to an outsider. I still enjoy modern games, but man, should they learn a thing or two from retrogames.I understand though that often with retro games you get to play the best of the best as you get those which survived the test of time, while with modern games you can't tell if they are valid or will be forgotten in 2 months.
>>12041301You have no idea how many of them I've seen wearing pre-worn retro t-shirts instead of buying vintage shirts. I even know one who spent $1,000 more than he should have on a Fender guitar with simulated wear and aging instead of just fucking buying and playing a regular one until it naturally ages. The thing is it just looks like Fender took a sander to it for five minutes for quick "wear and aging." The ones I come across all like retro, but they prefer "new-retro." That's why they like remakes. As toy collectors they prefer new Star Wars with the word "retro" and "vintage collection" on the package over actual vintage ones.
ITT zoomwiggers who believe in "progress mythology" therefore better technology = better art. the greatest games ever made were made 25-30 years ago. Brood War is the greatest RTS of all time.Diablo II is the greatest ARPG of all time.WoW is the greatest MMO of all time."nostaliga" did not "trick me into playing" these games and valuing these games."nostalgia" is an equalitarian ideologue's false narrative. they believe everything is equal, therefore new games are good because of novelty and old games are only good because of "nostalgia." they cannot judge things as being better or worse so they build a false structure upon which "game value" hangs.
>>12041323You're misunderstanding. Nostalgia is not the reason people realize old games are still good, nostalgia is just the catalyst. Of course good games will always be good, no matter when they were released. But if it wasn't for nostalgia, a lot of people wouldn't go back to them, sadly, due to "new always better" mindset.
>>12041341>zoomers who were never they originally have "nostalgia" for something they never played.
>>12041207Zoomers are SO jealous of millennial gaming and they don't really understand why. To be fair there are a good chunk of millennial bandwagoners on "retro" gaming.
>>12041207>You know... we've all been there. We all once only cared about the latest, most shilled AAA modern games and felt repulsed by games that felt "aged" at one point in our lives. But there also came a time of enligthenment where, somehow, our brain did a "click" and we started appreciating old games again.nice cope faggot>t. born in 1999, played retro vidya on compilation discs and plug & play consoles roughly the same amount as newer stuff as far back as i can remember, spent hours on the internet on youtube, screwattack, gametrailers, wikis, forums, etc. looking at every retro game-related thing i could find every day in the late 2000s
>>12041347>millennial bandwagoners on "retro" gamingdumbass millennials were there originally. we are the wagon.
>>12041341>But if it wasn't for nostalgia, a lot of people wouldn't go back to them, sadly, due to "new always better" mindset.you're misunderstanding. your narrative is false. people go back to previously released games because they're great games. you're peddling "nostalgia" bullshit that should stay on twitch and youtube comments.
>>12041364>people go back to previously released games because they're great games.You act as if the lowest common denominator would come to that conclusion easily.
OP is right but it doesn't apply to the current day when retro is already an established beloved thing.But yeah back in the 2000s? Retro was only for real enthusiasts, most people didn't want to step out of current gen.
>>12041207I guess around late gen 7 (Xbox 360/PS3 era) main stream gaming got really fucking gay and I couldn’t be arsed to care about 95% of what was coming out.At that point I had more fun playing older hits than the new shit.
I never stopped playing. Emulation opened up a new world of great games i'd never played or even heard about.
>>12041207every amazing retro gem was once a cutting edge AAA modern blockbuster. Games just used to get better back then and eventually they stopped getting better. Im not a "retro games fan" I just play good games.
>>12041439>>12041468Bingo. It was the establishment of modern gaming (brown open world/fps western games) that made people look back to retro again.There's a reason retro gaming became expensive starting the 2010s, it was still cheap in the 2000s because people were still hopeful for the future and didn't care much about the past.
>>12041207Randomly, out of nowhere. I played pretty much nothing but mayro on the SNES and DS as a kid (born in 2002), hardly played vidya aside from the big AssCreed/COD/Doom Eternal releases in my teens, and one day got a PS4 for no reason. I got GoW 2018 and Dark Souls III with it but ended up loving GoW III Remastered which I picked up on a whim so much that it made me want to get a PS3 to play the entire series, which I learned was backwards compatible with PS1 games. I'd never owned a PS1 and the games seemed cheap so I thought why not. I think the first one I got was Syphon Filter based on "that looks cool" I got a PS2 not long after that. Dead Cells introduced me to Castlevania and I got the Requiem rerelease of Rondo and SotN, which became a Sega Genesis with Bloodlines and DS Lite with HoD/CotM. Between all that was discovering Steam and getting some old games like Splinter Cell for cheap. I now own 7 /vr/ consoles and a ton of games for them, entirely predicated on "this looks cool and is cheaper than a PS5"tldr pic related was cheap and it took me down a rabbit hole of increasingly old games, now I have a NES
>>12041226This. Even as a kid, I was a firm believer that a real gamer likes games for being fun, not for just muhgraphix. My best friend as a kid was the same, during the mid-90's he got a 2nd hand C64 and a ton of games, and we played the hell out of Rampage on it. Chasing the new thing was for graphixfags, the same people who helped push those crappy FMV games and forced the trade-in of high quality spritework for early ugly primitive 3D.
>>12041207I appreciated the retro era when it was happening and when I played GameCube I realised something had gone wrong and we had crossed a threshold from games being works of craftmanship to games being goyslop.
>>12041207? I never gave a shit if a console was old or not, I was actively playing all my old consoles up through ps2 era, then after the ps2 I stopped caring about new consoles and just played my old shit and hoarded more back when they were still cheap
>>12041207>So when did YOU started to appreciate retro?I never stopped, and I STILL have games pre-7th console generation on my backlog.New players may not know this, but the sheer amount of games that came out up until the mid 00s was staggering. Every single month, and I mean it literally, you'd purchase your favorite game magazines and find MANY cool games that had been just released or were coming out soon (and don't get started on IMPORTS and bootlegs of games from other regions that weren't officially launched where you lived).Nobody had the time (or money) to play everything they wanted during that time, so a lot of players (myself included) just kept playing older games while we played the new games that interested us.>We all once only cared about the latest, most shilled AAA modern games and felt repulsed by games that felt "aged" at one point in our livesNever happened to me.
>>12041706Also emulation was a blessing that exponentially expanded the amount of games available to everyone. Since then even the most obscure of titles became accessible.
>>12041226Same here. I was born in the late 80s and had an NES and 5200 as a little kid. I got an SNES a couple years after it came out, but thanks to late release NES games, my NES was never retired. Continued to love the shit out of my NES games and SNES games even after getting an N64 and PlayStation, continued to be able to get some dirt cheap used games from FuncoLand and the like. Then of course I gained access to ebay and RetrogamingRoundtable in the early 2000s, which helped me continue to obtain old games, and even started getting into imports. By the time I was a teenager in the early 2000s, I was getting stuff like MSX2 and Famicom Disk System, alongside new GameCube, PS2, and XBOX games. Even as a kid and early teenager, I was still fascinated by "outdated" games. To me they were always just different games, not things which were inherently replaced by bigger games with more advanced graphics. Super Mario Bros 3 was still Super Mario Bros 3, SM64 being released did not change that.
>be me, 6 years old in 2002>cousin set up a model 2 sega genesis with 6-pak in the basement>awww year it's play genesis all the time timeI was a retro gamer before I knew what retro gaming was. Asked that cousin for their old NES as well, and they sent it right over. Got a few Game Boy games at a goodwill for two bucks, pokemon red, yellow, and donkey kong land 3. I didn't know one person that didn't like playing retro games at my house.
i never stopped playing them. even into 6th gen my snes was still getting play.there was a gap where i played less games and mostly current gen stuff, but even then i would mostly grab games released in the beginning of that gen even though it was closer to the end of it due to sales and stuff. in the last few years i went hyper autistic and grabbed all the old system and flashcarts/odes etc so i could play everything on a crt.
>>12041236>help me with my homework goyim>do it for free
>>1204120787 herenever "gave up" on retro (i've kept all my crap from childhood and still have it) but I definitely gave up on console gaming around 2004 or 2005 when I went to college. Played mostly PC games or old nostalgic games on emulators to get my fix from there out for like 15 years. Didn't get back into console gaming until I found a PS4 at a thrift store in 2020.Then when Covid happened and everything got all retarded, it made me realize that the good old times were long gone and it lit a fire under my ass and made me aware that I had to grab all of the stuff from my childhood I wanted and never got around to getting because it wasn't ever coming back.
>>12041207I was into retro when retro meant Atari.
>>12041207>when was the exact moment YOU changed?when i got molested :(
>>12041226This. I was a pcfag and lcdgamefag as a kid, so everything new or old was cool to me.
>>12041352Nigger, I'm not talking about us, I'm talking about the millennial hipsters and normalfags, the fuckers who didn't give a shit about old games until it became trendy to do so. The same people who told me playing videogames for hours was a sad thing to do but now claim the opposite playing overpriced modern shit.
>>12041304>incorrect. people "go back" to games released previously because they're good. nta but i think its a bit of both, people who never played a particular game before definitely arent going back due to nostalgia but i think it definitely plays a factor in people who already played the game before
>>12041207I didn't START to appreciate retro I am retro
>>12041916>the fuckers who didn't give a shit about old games until it became trendy to do so. The same people who told me playing videogames for hours was a sad thing to do but now claim the opposite playing overpriced modern shit.This is understated and I think it's what OP is talking about.
>>12041207I always appreciated my old games but what really started my retro gaming interest was discovering emulation in 99/00. It allowed me to play many old games I had only heard of or read in magazines
>>12041924>>12041972They're not posting here and you'd be much happier if you stopped seething about them all the time
>>12041207I was never like that.I grew mostly with PS1 and PS2.Since I live in a third world country, by the time the PS3 hit I was in university so didnt have the money to spend on it.Then when the PS4 hit, I was looking for work mostly. So I never really got into "current" gen consoles until like 2019 when my sister gifted me a PS4.Most up to date games I played were on my PC. Stuff like Resident Evil 5, DeadSpace, Bioshock, etc. Up to this day, can't believe my 32 bit laptop could run them.So basically I was never up to trends in gaming so I was retrogaming most of my life. I count myself lucky since because of that gacha, live service and other sloppa players play these days never appealed to me.And now thanks to chinkhelds I am even more retro than ever. First rekindling my childhood with nostalgia games and now playing new retro games.
>>12041207Realized 99% of the games I cared about on modern consoles were remakes or ports, and the remakes had slightly inferior quality to the originals, or replaced nice pixel art with soulless 3D, while censoring harmless shit.Also, with triple A I could not go back to a game after a month without feeling lost. I would forgot what half the buttons do and how to do crafting bullshit that most of the time feels unnecessary.That after waiting one hour for the 25GB update of the console or windows and 30GB for the game only for things to feel a little bit buggier and out of place.Might get a new icon for Copilot or Edge or a new ad for a paying DLC that gets on my way when starting the game.With an old console it’s like put the cartridge, turn on and play, there are 4 or 6 buttons to remember depending on the gen.
>>12042624>Realized 99% of the games I cared about on modern consoles were remakes or portsThis.Also noticed that even games like Taiko no Tatusjin Nintendo Switch Ver. has VERY BAD frame drops (just pause here for a moment... a simple 2D art rhythm game has frame issues probably because nowadays it's made on some bloated modern engine like Unity). So I just booted Taiko no Tatsujin on PS2/Wii, where games were coded to the metal, and never looked back. Fuck modern devs, really, it's incredible how expensive and poor the experience is nowadays.
>>12041236This is silly. OP your ideas are dumb and you should just accept it.
>>12041207>did YOU startedIs this Spanish speakers? I see this ESL grammar all the time
>>12042987Your language is like a cheap whore. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
>>12041207Grew up in a piracy shithole so retro emulation was what all the kids were doing.At some point we moved on to gritty FPS games, but while most seemed to stick with this genre like it was the best thing ever, I only found a few of the popular games fun and quickly went back. This was enough to teach me to look for games by content instead of release date.Gaming just never got better again. Though it certainly made me realize just how blinded the average gamer is by trends.
I've lived old gages forever and can appreciate earlier polygon and even Atari games. But at one point I abandoned them until I was tired of modern consoles, around the time the 360 was done with I came back to my emulator mostly. Now it's pretty much all I play, games from PS2 and earlier
>>12041207I started playing retro games when they were new and never really stoppedEarliest memories were of N64 my dad bought me, grandparents place had an NES with Mario Tetris and Duck Hunt, friends place had a SNES and we'd play Mario on that too when we felt like taking a break from GTA Halo and whatever else we were doing in like 2009I remember when people were saying N64 wasn't retro, now apparently Gamecube and Xbox is retroI always knew that there were good older games and would enjoy them alongside modern offerings, still have that N64 too
>>12041207user is underageand esland retarded
>>12041236lil nigga surprised people over 20 existyou don't have to start if you never stopped, how hard is that to wrap your head around
Since forever, basically. I started gaming at 7 with a gameboy and later got a PSX but I always enjoyed playing SNES and MD at friends' houses. Discovering roms and emulation really kicked it off for me though.
>>12043125i also love tofurkey sandwiches with mayo
When Metal Gear Solid 5 came out and stripped everything that made 1-4 great out so it could have a shitty open world slapped on it. After it became the biggest thing ever, I knew everyone else was going to try and copy it, and I was completely fucking right everything is shitty open world now.
>>12041207Around end of xbox 360 or a little after Xbone that I now considered retro games better than the current, I think buying Cuphead and Sonic Mania and realizing some of the best games copy gameplay from 30 years ago and that despite unlimited hardware that developers would likely never be able to make another Sonic or Mario World ever again, the market just wouldn't accept a game you can beat under an hour. I don't mean a remake, I mean an original idea just as good as its much easier to follow a template. Some are close like Shantae and some others. I still play a small selection of modern games though, there are a few really good ones still.>>12042624Original games like Teardown are rare. I'm still disappointed that most games have clipping issues and there is little destruction.
>>12041207>So when did YOU started to appreciate retro?When I got a CRT and discovered RGB and component cables. They look borderline HD on a PVM and are far more enjoyable when they don't look like stretched out garbage.
>>12042307what? man i just said nostalgia probably isnt playing a factor when people who never played a particular old game before choose to play it now, i dont care if they get into the hobby.
2002 zoom here. I've appreciated it ever since I started loving video games. When I was really little, I'd play the odd licensed game or Mario Kart, but I preferred physical toys like cars and stuff. It was only after I played an N64 at a family friend's house when I was like 8 and started getting more virtual console games on my Wii that I started getting really sucked into retro gaming. It was all over once I started watching guys like the Gaming Historian on YouTube and started learning a bunch of video game history. Ever since then (aside from a brief period in my teenage years where I was playing a lot of new releases) I've been obsessed with retro gaming and don't really care about anything made after 2007.
>>12041492>Bingo. It was the establishment of modern gaming (brown open world/fps western games) that made people look back to retro again. Lol you zoomers and your made up bullshitI just know you jerk off to pictures of little girls
>>12041207I don't hear about anybody having the same experience I had with retro. Honestly I felt like I didn't really like video games growing up in the 80s. I obsessed over the art. They tickled my imagination and we rented a lot on the NES. I only started appreciating retro games after I challenged myself to beat Castlevania in my thirties. I made a list of all the games I wanted to beat and did it. I think for me a part of it is that they bring back memories I have from spending time with my dad, best friend, and family. The thing I think modern gaming completely misses the mark on is elegant game design. It's almost always quantity over quality now. I like the scope of these older titles. I don't really agree with the idea that individual games should consume hundreds of hours of your life. Or even sixty hours. It's ridiculous.
>>12044269yeah i miss when an entire life altering experience was somehow crammed into a 1MB cartridge or whatever and ould be more meaningful than 100GB modern games
>>12041207I never appreciated anything else.>be europoor zoomer>parents got raped by great recession>friends on PS3 and Xbox 360>I'm stuck with hand me downs PS2 and Dreamcast from older brother>skipped entire 7th gen, bcuz poor>8th gen rolls around, kinda lost interest in gaming because I'm finishing highschool and getting into college>pandemic hits, suddenly back into vidya>get a Xbox 360 for 50 euros and a bunch of games, it's awesome>decide to get PS5 on launch, bcuz of 9th gen modern gaming + backwards compatible with PS4>fast forward a year and PS5 is gathering dust and I just play on my Xbox 360 and old PS2 and Dreamcast>Dreamcast finally dies ;(>start looking into emulation, sell PS5 and get a decent PC to emulate on>later also get Wii, mod it and buy CRT for 240p gamingI have zero interest in any games released post 2015... Besides with emulation I get literally 100s of amazing games without wasting a cent.
>>12041207For me, it began with the Playstation 2 and the release of Gradius V. During the PS2/GC era, I just wasn't enjoying playing video games as much as i used to. I was playing less and less and looking for other things to do with my time. That's when I seen Gradius V on Gamestop's website up for preorder, and I remembered how much I used to enjoy those types of games. So I bought it and played the shit out of it. Then I bought Contra Shattered Soldier for PS2 and Viewtiful Joe for the GC and Astro Boy Omega Factor for GBA, and for the first time in years I was enjoying video games again.That's when I realized that I wasn't actually losing interest in video games, I was losing interest in what video games had devolved into.
>>12041207>Playin on my GBA during hishschool>After uni lookin back on the console i realize that the games i played was just whatever slop i picked at the storeSince then i've been on a mission to get and play the missing gems, with a focus on games with good pixel artContinued that hunt with the 2D games on the DS, even if it might not be considered retro yet
Ironically enough, Screwattack. Remember when the AVGN posted there? Anyway the AVGN always made old games look bad but that was his shtick so I can't blame him, But Stuttering Craig and the rest of the guys, while they HAD to dick-polish the newest games at the time (Call of Duty 4 was brand new for example) and every once in a while they would go "Yeah these modern games are cool and all but remember Bionic Commando? On the NES? That game RULED!" and you know what? They were right, it did back then and it does now. Alongside a lot of other older games like Thunder Blade and Hydro Thunder and UN Squadron and Killer Instinct. I was still a teenager back then but it made me want to take a peek at these games I missed mostly due to my parents being big anti-gamers.Then a couple years later something magical happened. I bought Super Metroid on the Wii Virtual Console, a game I could swear I would never beat because "I'm too stupid for real games". But then I ended up beating it, with no help, which made me a bit more confident to go back to older, harder games, and it kind of went on from there.
I can't really bring myself to play any video game anymore retro or not. The only ones are the n64 Zelda games. Trying to play games just feels like a job. I'm not even autistic about those Zelda games. I don't do randomizer and dont speedrun or do any other stuff like that.
>>12041492>it was still cheap in the 2000s because people were still hopeful for the future and didn't care much about the past.Lol no fucking nigger, they saw dollar signs and started buying up anything and inflated the price of everything.
>>12044743it was cheap until boomers discovered these "toys" had actual value
>>12044616it's okay to not like things, just know you won't be taken seriously
>>12041207I grew up on n64 and loved the Zelda games, but was never able to finish them back then. I think I went back around 13 years old and finished them. I think I found screwattack and James Rolfe videos when looking for guides for my playtrough and I ended up buying a nes and snes a year or so later and found a few games I loved like super Metroid
>>12041236I fart in your general direction xdd
Between the age of 15 and 18 in the 00's I went through this phase >video games are stupid, I'm a musician nowThough I was still occasionally playing games, including emulating old games, so I never really stopped. But what really sprang my love for old games back was the release of Mega Man 9 in 2008. Before MM9 making a new mainstream game that was like an NES game was unthinkable, before that the entire industry was still deep in the mentality that anything 1 year old was outdated gargabe, which also explains the odd reviews MM9 got (IGN bashing the graphics for being old shit but saying nothing of the music that was just as old, for instance). MM9 was a revelation>They're making new games FOR NES LOVERS JUST LIKE ME?! That's amazing!and to this day I still believe MM9 was a cornerstore of retro gaming, even though it's technically "not retro" and not allowed on this board, I believe this board wouldn't exist without MM9 because MM9 was a huge contributor to "retro" becoming a substantial market.Anyway I dropped music a few years after, after a couple of bands, demos, many concerts, etc etc and spent more time with video games. Best decision of my life. I worked on a video game appreciated by hundreds of thousands of players, I'd have never reached that many people with music. Don't bother asking what, I'm posting here precisely for anonymity.
I alway played older games. Only thing that changed was that i stopped playing newer games around 2014.
>>12044327You could also conceivably understand the programming code if you looked at it. It was like every aspect of the game you loved was something you could learn. It's like an arms race happened for every part of game design. I remember looking at the art for video games back then and thinking that I could eventually make art that was that cool if I just practiced enough. Indie games have some of this spirit.
>>12041207I've always been playing them, they're a part of when I was growing up, and as the quality of video games have declined over the years the classics I loved stayed constant.
>>12044371If you're looking for a practical solution, Beelink mini PCs with a Ryzen in them can run and emulate pretty much any retro game you can think of and they're cheaper than most computers. It's all I use now. I put Linux Mint on mine and it's shocking what it can run. They're cheaper than what you can get selling your PS5.
>>12044585Honestly I feel like the Wii virtual console was really the last gasp for people that wanted modern consoles to endorse their love of older games. I'm 43, and it was the Wii virtual console that sucked me back in. I wish so much I had skipped everything after that point. The money I wasted money on modern trash is hard to even calculate at this point. I never even owned a Wii. I used my wife's old one. It's honestly the best console I've ever seen. I can't even imagine a better one unless it was just Wii HD. This is going to sound corny but when I think about the Wii my heart feels a little like I'm pining for a lost love or something. It's actual heartache. It's like even my body knows that the things I love are over and in the past. I just want to see hardware support the things I love again.
>>12041207Once I discovered emulation in the early 2000s I never had any reason to care about modern games anymore
>>12046192>I can't even imagine a better one unless it was just Wii HDBuddy do I have a console for you
>>12046083MM9 is the literal definition of retro and I honestly wish we could discuss actual literal retro games here. We can talk about romhacks and homebrew, why not new games that are true to the specifications of old platforms?
>>12041207I had my dads gameboy and n64 as a kid
>>12041207I got frustrated by the needless complexity of modern games, having to always be online, and constantly downloading updates.Its so much simpler to just put in a CD/Cartridge and press on. No accounts to log into and split screen play is easy.
>>12045638Well I'm not saying I dislike anything either. I don't understand how you got that take away.
>>12041207why is 4chan the only source of this photo when I reverse searchmore of this qt?
>>12041207>>12041236>>12041251what makes zoomers so arrogant over the retarded takes they pulled out of their ass?
>>12041236If I were in the same room as you when you said that I'd slap the shit out of you
>>12044749>it was cheap until bandwagoners "discovered" from youtube that they're not fitting in unless they buy the things the faggots they like and subscribe to tell them to
>>12046736I was poor as a kid. I had tiger handhelds.My son bought me a GBA with his dogecoin profits lulz.
I was actually going to reply seriously but then I read the thread and holy fuck this OP is an even bigger faggot than usual.
>>12046563Yeah seriously. Or at least, it'd be nice if the empty husks that run this site would rename the board to /vo/ or something (where O means "old"). My favorite example of a retro game that isn't /vr/-"retro" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Game_ChallengeA 2007 game featuring retro game designs that's explicitly about retro gaming and that has "Retro" as the FIRST WORD IN ITS TITLE... but it's not "retro" here. Because we have to follow the magical tradition set however many years ago by some semiliterate moron who picked the name.
>>12041236*BRRRRRRAAAAAAPPPPP*
>>12048072>>12046563The problem with this is that there is nothing factual about it, the limit of what would and wouldn't be "retro" would be a blur. That and talking about modern games is bound to further turn the board into /v/ 2.0Renaming "Retro Games" into "Old Games" would also open the gate to modern games. 18 years old 7th gen games are old, but they're not "retro", which implies certain style and design mentalities that differ from modern (which 7th gen doesn't really)
>>12048767>Renaming "Retro Games" into "Old Games" would also open the gate to modern games.I don't agree. "Old" is obviously a very flexible term and all they'd have to do is pin a date on it like what we already have. "The word 'old' here means pre-2008" is an artificial specialization of "old" yes, but it's FAR more natural than "The word 'retro' here merely means 'old' despite what you may read in your lying dictionary, and also 'old' means pre-2008"
>>12048770Oh but I guess that would sacrifice the explicit embedding of the "old in style not just chronologically" concept into the name. But still, choosing a particular old style to be referring to in that way, and embedding that choice into the name as well, is too much. "Retro" style games to me is a category that certainly excludes ordinary 3D PS2 games; the "/vr/" name didn't protect me against that. You can't put all the nuances you want right in the name. I will continue to vote for "/vo/ - Old Games" in this imaginary election that will never happen. Also I know this conversation is off topic but this thread sucks anyway so who cares.
>>12041207grew up with a ps1i played modern shit but i always had my ps1 around to go back to, after not really enjoying modern shit year after year i decided to start backtracking and go back before the ps1 to play what i missed and stayed there.
>>12048938it also never occurred to me a game being dated, if the controls were off, to me it was just something to get used to, like after playing skyrim on release I played punch-out and had a similarly good time. Tank controls are purely a skill issue, just put time and you'll get used to it, same with everything else.
>>12041207>You know... we've all been there. We all once only cared about the latest, most shilled AAA modern games and felt repulsed by games that felt "aged" at one point in our lives.I've never been at that point. I started with SNES and PS1 games when I was 4, and have always enjoyed them. All through school people thought I was weird for not playing PS3/360 and for not playing Fifa and CoD exclusively.I even asked for an NES and N64 off of ebay as birthday and christmas presents when I was a kid.
>>12048998yeah this tooi mean i remember getting a ps3 one year for xmas, playing it for a bit and then asking if i can sell it for some ps1 games
